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By Alistair Ryder (351) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 09 Jul 2017

Whitney: Can I Be Me is the best kind of music documentary…

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By Lauren Carroll Harris (50) for Junkee (216) on 29 Jun 2017

What lifts it from the usual half-hagiography/half-takedown, tell-all-doco-made-from-a-distance is its analysis of racism within the US music…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 28 Jun 2017

Car-crash gawpers may quibble that Broomfield has (respectfully) avoided footage of the final years, but this remains a quietly devastating…

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By Ben Nicholson (124) for CineVue (2,163) on 26 Jun 2017

A compelling re-telling of the singer's story…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 25 Jun 2017

Far from the tabloid profile of a celebrity trainwreck one might have expected from [Nick} Broomfield, he takes care to piece together the…

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By Stephen Porzio (31) for Film Ireland Magazine (354) on 21 Jun 2017

An appropriately tragic yet surprisingly eye-opening documentary on the rise and fall of singer and actress Whitney Houston…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2017

The film works best as a study of celebrity self-delusion, with the singer glossing over reality in each media appearance, but Broomfield is…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for ArtsHub (131) on 18 Jun 2017

It's not the details already splashed across the tabloids with frequency that prove informative, but glimpsing the pain lingering behind the…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 18 Jun 2017

A must for fans, non-fans will enjoy too…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 18 Jun 2017

When it comes to telling us who Whitney really was, however, the film only goes so far. [Although] for sure, it's absorbing…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 17 Jun 2017

You get the sense of a woman battling so hard to impress white America that her moral compass has gone haywire…

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By Simran Hans (401) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 17 Jun 2017

It's often uncomfortable to watch but still she's enrapturing: megawatt smile intact on stage and behind the scenes…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 15 Jun 2017

What emerges is a picture of a rather sweet and vulnerable woman who was overwhelmed by the trappings of wealth, and fame…

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By Roe Mcdermott (197) for Hot Press (197) on 15 Jun 2017

Broomfield settles for easy answers. But there are occasional glimmers of devastating insight…

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By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 15 Jun 2017

Broomfield paints the broad picture effectively, and the film's closing passages depicting Houston's seemingly irreversible decline are difficult…

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By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 15 Jun 2017

I admit I didn't know much about Whitney Houston before seeing this documentary. I found it fascinating and unsettling…

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By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 15 Jun 2017

This sensitive, not entirely uncritical, documentary grows ever more poignant as you realise Houston was never able to find a satisfactory…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for iNews.co.uk (132) on 15 Jun 2017

Though the film is both fascinating and informative, you're ultimately left with a nagging sense that the portrait is incomplete…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 15 Jun 2017

Dodges pitfalls galore to tell a heartbreaking story with suitable solemnity…

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By Kate Mossman (2) for New Statesman (382) on 15 Jun 2017

How strange to make a film about such a person yet turn them into an absence at the heart of it, in favour of a narrative that accentuates…

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